On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 at 2:42pm, Brashers, Bart -- MFG, Inc. wrote > I've been using amanda-2.4.2p2 for a long time now, without problems. In > the last week or so, my Linux (2.4.20) machine has been crashing, apparently > when amanda runs. I see in the various logs in /var/log when amanda (e.g. > xinetd in /var/log/secure with user amanda, from 127.0.0.1) and then nothing > until the restart the next morning when I restart the computer. > > The real kicker was just now when I ran amflush (after amcleanup) to flush > the last failed dump to the disk. The system panicked after just a few > minutes, with the "Machine check exception (kernel panic: cpu context > corrupt)" error. That usually happens when the system is too hot, or you > have a bad motherboard, or something. This machine has been in operation > for about 6 months, so it's probably not the MB. It's not that hot in the > room, and I checked that the fins on the CPU fan weren't clogged with dust. > > Any ideas here? Anyone heard of such a thing? Am I barking up the wrong > tree thinking that amanda might be responsible for my crashes? It's a real > pain, not being able to run stuff at night (and not having backups makes me > nervous).
That sure sounds a lot like hardware to me. Backups can stress the system in a lot of ways -- CPU, I/O, etc. Try to test each component -- run memtest86 for the memory, bonnie++ or iometer or tiobench for the disks, setiathome or some such for the CPU, some network testing, etc. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
